Weighing anp carton



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB U. MANIsoHEWITz, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, AssIGNOB. To THE B. MANIsCHnwITz COMPANY, or CINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION or OHIO.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 10, 1919.

Application led J' une 20, 1918. Serial No. 240,897.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, JACOB U. MANISCHE- wITz, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in iVeighing and Carton-Filling Devices, of which the following is a specification.

An object of my invention is to produce a device particularly designed to accomplish the lling of cartons quickly with fragile articles such as matzos, crackers, etc., with definite quantities of the article and without breakage thereof.

This and other objects are attained in the weighing and carton filling device described in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a carton filling device embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of my improved device illustrating the second step in its use.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of my improved device illustrating the final step in its use.

My improved device I have chosen to illustrate in use with an ordinary beam counter scale using weights for weighing articles to be weighed. My improved device consists of a tray or pan 4 having three sides and a bottom 5 to which a block 6 is attached and which may occupy a guide 7 located at the end of the beam 8 of the scale. The size of the tray is that of the interior of the carton to be filled, the height of the sides being less preferably than the depth of the carton to be filled and the corners 4a of the tray being cut away. In using my improved device, it may be located on the scale beam with its block 6 in the guide 7 provided for it. The matzos 9, or other article to be weighed and packed, is then placed in the an 4 in an amount corresponding to the weight 10 at the opposite end of the scale beam. With the scale pan thus filled, an inverted carton 11 is brought down over the pan and its contents, as shown in Fig. 2, until the bottom of the carton touches the top of the matzos.

The pan 4, the matzos 9 and the cartonl 11 are then slipped from guide 7 of the Copies of this patent may be obtained forve cents each, by addressing the scale beam 8 and set down upon the carton bottom. The pan is then removed as shown in Fig. 3, thus leaving the matzos within the carton ready for the sealing of the fiaps thereof.

An advantage of my improved device over the usual method of packing cartons by hand, is that there is no crowding of the articles to be packed, directly into the carton, thus avoiding the breakage which so often occurs from this cause. The crowding of the required amount of matzos within the high walls of the carton is avoided by the device I have described, it being an easy matter to pack the pan by simply sliding the Inatzos between the shallow walls thereof and then while being held in position between the walls, to slide an inverted carton over it, after which the pan is easily removed from the carton, leaving the matzos in position therein.

While I have described the use of my device as consisting in placing the merchandise in the scale pan, while the pan is connected to the scale, the device may be used, by weighing the merchandise and then filling it into a pan which is disconnected from the scale.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. In combination with a weighing scale having guides on the beam thereof, a three sided pan removably mounted in the guides, adapted to receive articles to be weighed, and having the sides thereof less than the height of the articles to be weighed, and of a size to fit within a carton to be filled.

2. A device for weighing and filling matzos into cartons comprising a scale and a pan having a foot, the scale having a beam adapted to frictionally engage and hold the foot of the pan and the pan having vertical sides adapted to fit within the inside of the carton.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name this 18th day of June, 1918.

JACOB U. MANISCHEWITZ.

Witnesses:

WALTER F. MURRAY, W. THORNTON BOGERT.

"Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

